What a Disaster!!! (Nokia 8890)

Member Name: Irish Lad

Product:	Nokia 8890
Date:	04/05/01 (68 review reads)
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Advantages: Beautiful & Stylish

Disadvantages: Build Quality

Quite simply, this phone is not ready for release to the general public. This is my 3rd Nokia phone, and to date I have been exceptionally happy with them.

However, this model has given me and a colleague who has one nothing but trouble. Mine ceased to operate after 24 hours of ownership - it fails to receive any signal. I think what happened is that the aerial came apart from the rest of the phone inside.

My colleague found it very poor at roaming in the US compared to the Motorola triband.

It's undeniably beautiful, though the build quality at the back feels a bit cheap. The trouble is, there are too many moving parts - wait for the price to come down and the manufacturing wrinkles to get ironed out.

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